Skype API

November 16, 2005 - 3:07pm — Adrian Freed

The Skype API documents a simple text based messaging protocol between clients and Skype. I believe we could develop a discovery and session management scheme for OSC based on Skype. A simple hack would be to use the chat message functions to send the agreed upon udp or tcp port and ip addresses for an "OSC" session.
Skype provides all the user name space management and authentication stuff for free and is becoming very widely adopted.

Another interesting tack would be to build an OSC PAL (Protocol Adaptation Layer) for the Skype API. This would allow users to create OSC servers for Skype functions.